Forsaken Daughter Pampered by Top Hier

Chapter 19

The next morning, Allison left for an overseas conference,

When Ella called, Stephanie couldn’t help but smirk. “Tell your cousin to say fat for a lot longer Alton’s gone Shell out of town for about a month

Ella sounded surprised. “How do you know that? Did she call you?”

Stephanie: “Yeah, she called me at 1 AM last night.”

Ella let out a small laugh. “She called you at 1 AM to tell you her schedule? Is the crazy?

She knew doctors had weird hours, but I AM? That was a new level of bizarre for Allison

Stephanie laughed, “Actually, she called about Olivia.”

Ella was intrigued. “Olivia? What happened to her?”

Stephanie paused, and then she replied, “She got admitted to the hospital last night. Apparently, she’s got a bunch of diseases.”

Ella’s voice immediately shifted, a mix of shock and confusion. “A bunch? How many? What kind of diseases?”

Stephanie filled her in on everything she knew, and Ella was stunned.

Just yesterday, she’d seen Olivia and Chris at a gynecology clinic, and she’d assumed it was because Olivia was pregnant.

Turns out, it was because she was seriously sick.

Stephanie recalled what Allison told her yesterday. “Uterine cancer, heart disease, and I think liver cancer too.”

Ella gasped, her voice shaky. “What… how does she have so many diseases? And uterine cancer? How does that even happen?”

Like Stephanie, Ella seemed to think uterine cancer was something that came with an indulgent lifestyle.

uterine

doctor, so she wouldn’t gossip with me. And

future. I

conservative.”

the daughter of a nanny, and that was enough for them to disapprove.

serious health problems, there was no way they’d ever accept her as Chris’s

out. With all Olivia’s health issues, the older members of the Ashford family are gonna do whatever it takes to stop Chris from getting back

start pushing for you and Chris to

the Ashfords would be desperate to lock Stephanie down now–especially since she

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them, Stephanie was the perfect replacement

Ella wasn’t wrong.

family was already keeping a close eye on Olivia’s condition.

especially concerned about the one thing they could never

before heading to the

a call from Chris’s mom. “Stefi, come by for lunch today, I’ll

got a lot going on this afternoon. I

wasn’t about to leave it to the designers.

heavily. “Is this about Olivia? And you’re avoiding me now?”

She didn’t want to

“Or should I come

mostly out of respect. “Okay,

to just go

give her a chance to clear up

hanging up, a strange

She answered, “Hello?”

me.” It was Chris’s voice,

of his voice already had her blood